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YouTube Channel host, presenter and professional speaker , Ruth Amos, In this episode, I am delighted to be in conversation with award-winning British inventor, YouTube Channel host, presenter and professional speaker Ruth Amos. Listen here! Ruth's future took a massive diversion when she was tasked with designing a mobility aid for a member of her design and technology teachers' family who had suffered a stroke. The task quickly escalated from a school GCSE project to a potential business as it became evident that there was no equivalent solution on the...
Materials and their properties - Papers and boards, Materials and their properties: Papers and Boards This item cannot be bought with curriculum credits. Age 14-16First published 2017 One of a series of classroom teaching resources for students, addressing the relevant content of all four Awarding organisations' Design and Technology GCSE specifications. The resource will also be useful to students enrolled other technical courses including Engineering. This contains a PowerPoint presentation containing a range of summary information for students to help...
Designed for Life - Live at Simon Langton Boys School, Kent (Part 2), In this, the second episode of a two-part mini-series, we continue exploring the journey of school design and technology leaders and departments as we visit and speak with staff, students, and parents at Simon Langton Boys' Grammar School in Canterbury, Kent. 🎧 Listen here. Before anyone assumes this is a story of overprivileged students enjoying an experience facilitated by wealth and connections, please be aware that this is not the case. This department has been carefully...
Strategic Design Consultant , Matthew Cockerill, In this episode, we are privileged to be in conversation with independent strategic design consultant Matthew Cockerill. Matthew concentrates on helping companies accurately position their future direction and focus by identifying what he terms their 'near future' opportunities. Not crystal ball gazing into the future and predicting what lies ahead, more pinning a destination down to what is possible within a given time frame (normally 6/8 years) and then working back from point. Using his expertise and insight, Matthew has helped some of the world's biggest brands...
Chair of ELS, Iolo Jones, Podcast brought to you by the Design and Technology Association in partnership with the Edge Foundation. Listen now! Iolo Jones is chair of ELS, a company that describes itself as the expert in "experience learning". The company uses the latest technologies in XR, VR and AR to measure learners as they are experiencing learning, enabling better metrics and better learning outcomes. Iolo has founded a number of companies, including Sutton Jones Multimedia, leading system integrator Interactive 1, online video pioneer Narrowstep, and was most recently Chair of...
Reports, We have actively contributed to the ongoing curriculum review with a series of detailed reports and collaborative efforts. These include a joint paper with the Design Council, NSEAD, and fifteen other organisations, alongside our own response informed by over 200 teacher submissions. There is widespread agreement that the existing curriculum requires substantial reform. The focus on STEM education and addressing the skills gap to support the industrial strategy offers hope for positioning D&T as a vital subject within schools. You can see all of our reports and co-authored...
Brad Harris, “Brad is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer who has acquired a wealth of engineering knowledge, skills and understanding over more than 40 years of educational, training, research and industrial experience across the system, product, asset and project lifecycles in the automotive, defence, maritime, aerospace, oil & gas and utilities sectors. For the majority of the last ten years Brad has worked as an independent consultant, including four and a half years of assignments on the programme that is creating one of the most complex products on earth. His clients included a...
Ursuline Academy, Ilford, Rose Russell and Edna Reilly, On International Women in Engineering Day, Designed for Life takes a moment to celebrate the work of two women who have made an amazing positive difference to girls' exposure to STEM opportunities within their school. Listen to the podcast hereRose Russell has been an outstanding Technician/Instructor/ STEM Coordinator at the Ursuline Academy, Ilford (an all girl’s catholic school) for 29 years in both the art and design and design and technology departments. Trained in fashion, Rose is neither an engineer nor a...
Skills for Planet: upskilling one million designers in green design skills by 2030, We’re proud and delighted that the Design & Technology Association was one of the partners who worked closely with our friends and colleagues at the Design Council to help produce this important paper: Skills for Planet is a national initiative from the Design Council, on a bold mission to upskill one million designers in green design skills by 2030. Design shapes the world we live in – and right now, it’s shaping our...
Lee Hull, During my 25 years teaching experience, I have accumulated extensive knowledge and experience in different aspects of Design and Technology. Since graduating with a degree in Design and Technology in 1986,I have not only taught students multiple interrelated subjects at different levels, but I have also managed departments, liaised with the different examination authorities, and trained and mentored other teachers in formal and informal roles. All of this while continually adapting my teaching methods and techniques. I began my teaching career in 1986, where...
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